What would you do if a homeless Somali girl came up to you...

[TheLoFather]

....and told that she is can't bare spending another night at a bus shelter?

[WiredForGood]

....and told that she is can't bare spending another night at a bus shelter?

First option:

Address her immediate need for that night and pay for her hotel. Then dig up some information about shelters in the city where she can find a housing till she can afford one on her own. This is assuming she has drug/alcohol related issues.

Second option:

If her homelessness is due to familial conflicts, and she is decent, hook her up with other Somalis/friends/relatives who may have a spot for sleep until she finds a job so she can rent her own one bedroom.


The help you give always depends on the person and their status. Some people easier to help than others.

[X.Playa]

Bus shelter? What is that?

[WiredForGood]

Bus shelter? What is that?

Where you wait for the bus. Bus Stop Shelters.

[DaacasBiyo]

Bus shelter? What is that?

It's a riddle, the girl is a bus.

[X.Playa]

How can she sleep in there? What country is that. In Canada if you sleep there the police will drag your ass out and even charge you with trespassing.

[Futurist]

Never seen one

[WiredForGood]

Never seen one

If you live in a city which hosts large Somali population, you might possibly run into few who ask you for money on trains, or on the streets. They mostly beg other Somalis.

A Somali like that might not be homeless per se but looking for money to buy and feed their bad habits. I have run into Somalis like that few times. I give the money if I have change to clear my conscience and let God deal with their self destruction.

[TheLoFather]

Bus shelter? What is that?

It's a riddle, the girl is a bus.

[TheLoFather]

How can she sleep in there? What country is that. In Canada if you sleep there the police will drag your ass out and even charge you with trespassing.

Ever been to the UK?

[TheLoFather]

....and told that she is can't bare spending another night at a bus shelter?

First option:

Address her immediate need for that night and pay for her hotel. Then dig up some information about shelters in the city where she can find a housing till she can afford one on her own. This is assuming she has drug/alcohol related issues.

Second option:

If her homelessness is due to familial conflicts, and she is decent, hook her up with other Somalis/friends/relatives who may have a spot for sleep until she finds a job so she can rent her own one bedroom.


The help you give always depends on the person and their status. Some people easier to help than others.

What about the third option i.e. taking her to your own home and giving her a spot for a sleep until things get sorted for her?

[WiredForGood]

....and told that she is can't bare spending another night at a bus shelter?

First option:

Address her immediate need for that night and pay for her hotel. Then dig up some information about shelters in the city where she can find a housing till she can afford one on her own. This is assuming she has drug/alcohol related issues.

Second option:

If her homelessness is due to familial conflicts, and she is decent, hook her up with other Somalis/friends/relatives who may have a spot for sleep until she finds a job so she can rent her own one bedroom.


The help you give always depends on the person and their status. Some people easier to help than others.

What about the third option i.e. taking her to your own home and giving her a spot for a sleep until things get sorted for her?

I am not comfortable spending time with a woman in my apartment unless we have relations. So, if I can tell she is a good woman with bad luck, I have to find a female relative willing to trade beds with me for couple nights. Taking her home and me sleeping there at the same time is not in my comfort zone. If I lived with my family, then she can come along and stay as long as she wants since we are not going to be by ourselves.

I don't like to come across as a man trading favors in case I took her to my apartment as well. We are Somalis, we pride ourselves in helping Somali women without asking for a return.

[X.Playa]

First option:

Address her immediate need for that night and pay for her hotel. Then dig up some information about shelters in the city where she can find a housing till she can afford one on her own. This is assuming she has drug/alcohol related issues.

Second option:

If her homelessness is due to familial conflicts, and she is decent, hook her up with other Somalis/friends/relatives who may have a spot for sleep until she finds a job so she can rent her own one bedroom.


The help you give always depends on the person and their status. Some people easier to help than others.

What about the third option i.e. taking her to your own home and giving her a spot for a sleep until things get sorted for her?

I am not comfortable spending time with a woman in my apartment unless we have relations. So, if I can tell she is a good woman with bad luck, I have to find a female relative willing to trade beds with me for couple nights. Taking her home and me sleeping there at the same time is not in my comfort zone. If I lived with my family, then she can come along and stay as long as she wants since we are not going to be by ourselves.

I don't like to come across as a man trading favors in case I took her to my apartment as well. We are Somalis, we pride ourselves in helping Somali women without asking for a return.

Are you a mullah? The Muslim type that only cares about following Mohammed so he can get laid in his promised Janna and save his skin from the ever passed off Allah?

[TheLoFather]

First option:

Address her immediate need for that night and pay for her hotel. Then dig up some information about shelters in the city where she can find a housing till she can afford one on her own. This is assuming she has drug/alcohol related issues.

Second option:

If her homelessness is due to familial conflicts, and she is decent, hook her up with other Somalis/friends/relatives who may have a spot for sleep until she finds a job so she can rent her own one bedroom.


The help you give always depends on the person and their status. Some people easier to help than others.

What about the third option i.e. taking her to your own home and giving her a spot for a sleep until things get sorted for her?

I am not comfortable spending time with a woman in my apartment unless we have relations. So, if I can tell she is a good woman with bad luck, I have to find a female relative willing to trade beds with me for couple nights. Taking her home and me sleeping there at the same time is not in my comfort zone. If I lived with my family, then she can come along and stay as long as she wants since we are not going to be by ourselves.

I don't like to come across as a man trading favors in case I took her to my apartment as well. We are Somalis, we pride ourselves in helping Somali women without asking for a return.

A friend of mine happened to have experienced a similar situation to this, where he took a girl he was trying to help to his house, where he lived with his wife and when his wife came back from work and seeing this girl at her living room while he was in the kitchen cooking supper, she immediately switched and started to get angry at him for bringing stranger to their home. And apparently when he tried to explain that the girl was in need of their help, she wouldn't have it and thought that he might have had other motives than just being a samaratan to a Somali girl in need of help and started to have a mighty row with him. To cut a long story short the couples parents and relatives had to be called to mediate and resolve the situation. The girl ended up being helped by the wives mother, who offered her a place and soon after getting her life back on track, has got engaged to the guy's wife's cousin.

So I would agree with you, taking home might result in tricky situations. But if handled right, the outcomes could be wondrous

[Jaarsonew]

if she is good looking Probably do nikah mutha like my iranian brothers and then handle some business,
If not divorce my fourth wife and make a new one.

We got ensure the survival of cushitic genes.